How do you stand and how do you sit? Psychological research shows that changing the "stance" can improve self-confidence

When we go to an important meeting or attend an important social gathering, we will care about our appearance, pay attention to our clothes, pay attention to our mouths, and often ignore our standing and sitting postures. You may have often heard that someone told you to "lift your head and raise your chest", but just changing your posture will give us a higher chance to overcome challenges?

Position affects your opinion of yourself

We all know that straight and open postures can avoid back pain and leave a good first impression on people, but many people don’t know that changing postures can affect your opinion of yourself. If you are a person who is not very confident, changing postures will give you more positive views of yourself. And the way you look at yourself will also greatly affect the way others view you, creating a positive cycle.

Pablo Bri&nilde;ol et al. has proved that the experiment was carried out in this way, and the researchers divided the subjects into A and B In both groups, each of them has to write their own advantages and disadvantages on the paper. Group A is assigned to sit with a chest-protruding position, and Group B is assigned to be curled up (shoulder inner contraction, back, and double hand grip). After the end, the researchers asked the two groups of subjects to fill out a "self-evaluation scale". It was found that the self-evaluation score of Group A, who works in a chest-protruding position, showed a higher self-evaluation score than Group B.

Amy Cuddy, an American social psychologist named after the promotion of Power Position Having done a series of studies on the psychological impact of body behavior, she found that when we intentionally maintain a confident "power posture" (such as double-legged opening with shoulder-width and hands on hips while standing), it can really change the hormone concentration in our brains, thereby affecting psychological emotions, allowing ourselves to make more confident behavioral expressions, and change our minds from the inside out.

Good posture can promote mental health

When talking about body shape, many women are extremely strict with themselves and always think they are very fat when taking care of the mirror. Even if the people around them don’t think so, they always have too much negative perception and emotion, which affects mental health. This is the cause of many patients with diet disorders (such as diet).

Change your posture can also affect your mental health. Mart Miragall and others' research found 68 women who are very dissatisfied with their bodies. They asked them to take the lens and perform a continuous test after taking the lens. One group used a head-lifting posture in the lens, and the other group did not. The research results show that the scores of the head-lifting posture in terms of emotions, self-esteem, and body image are compared with the other group.

So next time you have negative thoughts about yourself in your brain, pay attention to your posture and change your body language, which will change your mind.